Mr. Christopher Porter at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

On February 6th, 2019. See this statement in context.

February 6th, 2019 / 3:55 p.m.

Chief Intelligence Strategist, FireEye, Inc.

I'm not familiar enough with that system to comment on it specifically. Those types of arrangements in general, where you have a data broker that acts as a public trust or an industry-wide trust generally have the effect of improving cybersecurity day to day, but also of making the system more brittle. One compromise becomes a massive compromise.

I don't know enough to comment on that situation specifically, though.

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